Bulletin 3. The flora of the Raritan Formation, 1911 - State of New ...

212 THE RARITAN FLORA.
and Patoot horizons in Greenland ; from various localities within
the Dakota Group, including the Woodbine formation of Texas ;
and with the exception of the fragments from Marthas Vineyard
and Long Island, which are of questionable identity, it is common
in either the Raritan or Magothy or homotaxial formations
from New Jersey to Alabama.
Its mast marked character is the prominence of its tertiary
areolation. It is abundant in the Raritan, occurring both in the
older and younger beds, and is one of the species which points
very strongly to the Cenomanian age of these deposits.
Occu_'e_we.--South Amboy, Milltown.
Collections.--U. S. National Museum, N. Y. Botanical Garden.
D1ose'zr_os Arae.OYE_SlS Berry.
Phyftites ellipgcus Newb., F1. Amboy Clays, 13o, pl. 24, f. 9,
1896.
,Diospyros amboyensis Berry, Bull. Torrey Club, vol. 36: 262,
19o9.
Description.--Leaves elliptical in outline, large, 8 cm. long by
4.6 cm. broad; margin undulate; apex rounded, almost retuse;
base broadly rounded', thus cfiffering from the wedge-shaped base
of Diospyros primceva:; midrib strong, although not so strong as
in the latter species; secondaries numerous, 8-1o pairs, regular,
leaving the midrib at an angle of about 45 °, eamptodrome; tertiary
venation of large polygonal meshes, finer in calibre tfian in
Diospyros primceva.
Unfortunately no specimens other than Newberry's original
type have been found, and it is possible that it was an aberrant
leaf of the common Diospyros prirnc_vG some undoubted leaves
of which suggest it in their sum of characters. One of the leaves
which Heer identifies frmn the Atane schists of Greenland as
Fopuh_s t_yperborec_,1 while the apex is partially destroyed and
the tertiaries i_re not shown, is very similar to the species under
Heer, FI. Foss. Aret., vol. 3, ab. 2; pl. "ag, L 6, I8.
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